15th October Workshop, at the Maison Française, Oxford
2 p.m. Led by M. Dominique Pestre (Paris)
"Physical science and the military in Britain, France, and Italy since the Second World War"
17th October Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. Dr Katherine D. Watson (Wellcome Institute)
"Proof of poisoning: developments in forensic toxicology in nineteenth-century Britain."
24th October Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. M. Benoit Lelong (Université de Paris VII)
"The translation of ion physics from Cambridge to Oxford: John Townsend and the Drapers' Company Electrical Laboratory, 1900-1914."
29th October Seminar, at the Maison Française, Oxford
2 p.m. Led by M. Dominique Pestre
"The physical and biomedical sciences and industry since the Second World War: the cases of France and Britain."
31st October Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. Dr Arnold Pacey (Open University)
"China and India in the history of technology."
2nd November One-day meeting in the Museum
10.30 a.m. 'The Geometry of War'
Dr David Bryden, Dr Stephen Johnston, Dr Alex Keller, Professor Simon Pepper and Mr Andrew Saunders
7th November Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. Dr Beryl Hartley (University of Oxford)
"The living academies of Nature: scientific experiment in learning and communicating the new skills of early nineteenth-century landscape."
12th November Seminar, at the Maison Française, Oxford
2 p.m. Led by M. Dominique Pestre
"Civility in physical science, 1918-39: Oxford, Paris, California."
14th November Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. Dr Crosbie Smith (University of Kent)
"Re-inventing origins: Lord Kelvin and the age of the Earth."
16th November One-day workshop in the Museum
10.30 a.m. 'The Art of Engraving' Mr Christopher Elton, Professor Gerard Turner, Ms Paula Dryburgh et al.
21st November Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. Professor Joy Parr (All Souls College)
"Resisting the depoliticization of technological choice."
26th November Seminar, at the Maison Française, Oxford
2 p.m. Led by M. Dominique Pestre
"Policies and practices in public health in post-war Britain and France."
28th November Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. Ms Anne Secord (Wellcome Unit, Cambridge)
"Observing differences: artisans, gentlemen, and the work of nineteenth-century botany."
30th November 'The Geometry of War': exhibition closes
5th December Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. Dr Allan Chapman (Wadham College)
"'Lacking an independent fortune …': G. B. Airy and the beginning of professionalization in British astronomy, 1828-81."
6th December Seminar, in the Faculty of Modern History
5 p.m. Dr Jim Bennett
"Brass and Glass: Tools of Empire from British instrument workshops of the nineteenth century."
21st December Museum closes for Christmas
2nd January Museum reopens after the Christmas closure
21st January Exhibition opens in the Museum
'The Noble Dane: Images of Tycho Brahe.'
22nd January Seminar series begins,
5 p.m. in the Hovenden Room, All Souls College
"Magic, Religion and Science in Early Modern Europe."